Beloved, I am glad to share with you today the above theme from Ps 110:1 and following. Indeed, “Act for me because of your name,” asks the one who has already been called in verse 16 to the Afflicted and the Poor (Ps 109:21-22; John 12:27-33). “Let us know that this is your hand… ». God owed to His own glory to deliver the One who invoked Him. This is what Psalm 110 shows! What relief it takes after the painting of the lowering of the Man of sorrows. The Lord had stood at the right hand of the Poor to save him (Ps 109:31); it is the past. For the present, He made him sit at His right hand proclaiming all his satisfaction in the finished work (Ps 110:1; this is Christ; Eph 1:15-23). And even later, verse 5 promises, “The Lord, at your right hand, will break the kings in the day of his wrath.” His opponents of Psalm 109 will be stepped on with his feet: their enslavement will be part of his glory. For this Psalm 110 is quoted no less than eight times in the New Testament. It serves practically as a common thread throughout hebrews (Hb 1:13-14; Hb 7.15-17; Hb 10.11-13). Finally, in addition to these promises to the Messiah, there is one that relates to his way on earth (verse 7). Christ, a man, was to find here on earth a few rare moments of refreshment, suitable for encouraging and strengthening his soul (Luke 7:9:44; Lk 9:18-22; Lk 10:21-42; Lk 23:39-43.
Considered in conjunction with Ps. 16, this psalm gives us a magnificent vision of Christ’s glorious ascension – God greeted him by saying, “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies for the stepping stone of your feet,” and so to speak Christ replied, “Your face is a satiation of joy; there are pleasures to your right forever.” And if we read this in the light of Heb. 10:12-13, we see how perfectly proper God’s promise was received by Christ. It fills him with hope, with expectation, which is always the normal response of the heart to the promise. But it should be noted that the Lord did not enter heaven for the sole purpose of sitting at the right hand of power, waiting for the day when he will put his enemies as the stepping stone of his feet; he also entered heaven as in a sanctuary, to perform there now, according to the riches of his grace, a service of priest on behalf of his saints who, still on earth, walk and fight (Heb. 8). This psalm is truly of great prophetic significance, and the Holy Spirit makes great use of it in the New Testament: It is through this psalm that he makes us understand that Jesus is greater than David (Mat 22) – more excellent than the angels (Heb 1) – now in heaven as Lord (Acts 2:34-36) – as someone who waits (Heb. 10) – in the joy of a sacrificature that is not transmitted (Heb. 7), that he did not arrogate to himself, but that he received from God (Heb. 5).
For the lordship of Christ is one of the main points of this psalm. In the previous psalm we saw him as the “afflicted and poor” man, but here it is “the Lord.” These two characters are the constant theme of the prophets (1 Pet 1:11). He annihilated himself, but God gave him a name above all names (Phil. 2). Peter, in his first preaching to the Jews after the resurrection, sees Jesus in his lordship wherever he looks – now in heaven, soon when he returns to earth, and then in all the ages that follow. He sees it in his lordship over the Jew as well as the Greek. It mentions the name of the Lord, the day of the Lord, and the face of the Lord – of that same Lord – in their varied effects and virtues (Acts 2:20-21; 3:19; 10:36).
But he is not Lord simply because he is God, he is Lord because he has been anointed. And therefore this lordship is exercised in our favor. Israel’s interest was tied to all those on whom God’s anointing was based to exercise office in the midst of the people: whether they were prophets, priests, or kings, they were all in the service of Israel. The wisdom of the prophet, the offerings of the priest, the strength of the king, all contributed to the blessing of the people. In the same way, the lordship of Jesus is exercised in our favor. Whether he is lord of life, lord of principalities and authorities, lord in all spheres of glory and lord of all “keys” – the key to the kingdom of heaven, the key to the house of David, the key to death and hades, or the bottomless abyss – he is Lord of all this for us. As Lord, He extends His authority over all things, but always for us. His eyes – the eyes of the Lord – run through the earth, on our behalf.
What a wonderful lordship! However, if He is Lord for us, He is also Lord over us. As David says here, “My Lord.” But this has been, and will be increasingly forgotten practically: Peter and Jude, both prophesying of the characters of late apostate Christianity, announcing that men will deny our Lord and His authority, and change grace into dissolution (2 Peter 2; Jude 4). Also, it is the Lord who will come to avenge the dishonor cast upon His Name (Jude 14): “Behold, the Lord has come.” It is a capital Scripture, in truth, that this psalm: He is indeed likely to occupy and expand the thoughts of his saints who love him and find their delights in inquiring about Him in his temple. For Ps. 109 described this last state. But here we find ourselves, on the morning of a new day, in which we are, not before the fathers, but before the children of grace. Then we find the assured oath of Jehovah that Christ will sit as a priest on his throne on earth. It is both a promise and a prophecy. The gaze is also forward to the day of his wrath: Adonai, the Lord who is at the right hand of the Lord, has a day of anger approaching, – the day already reported, when his enemies will be put for the step of his feet! The time of his sitting at the right hand of Jehovah is not this day, but the time of mercy, the favorable day. Christ was answered and exalted, and His work among men is the result of His Atonement in grace.
The following verses have been compiled for your edification and grouped together for your better understanding.
King and priest:
· Footstool of Christ, his enemies will become his
Ps 110:1 of David. Psalm. Word of the Lord to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your stepping stone. Mt 22:44 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your stepping stone. Hb 1:13 And to which of the angels did he ever say: Sit to my right hand, until I make your enemies your stepping stone? Hb 10.13 now waiting for his enemies to become his footstool.
· Dominion of Christ, special characteristics of his divinity
-Eternal Isa 9:5-6 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us, and dominion will rest on his shoulder; He will be called Admirable, Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 6 To give to the empire of growth, And an endless peace to the throne of David and his kingdom, to strengthen and sustain it by law and justice, From now on and forever: This is what the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do.
-Universal Za 9:10 I will destroy the chariots of Ephraim, And the horses of Jerusalem; And the arcs of war will be annihilated. He will announce peace to the nations, and he will dominate from one sea to another, from the river to the ends of the earth.
-On nature Mt 8:27 These men were seized with astonishment: What is this one, they said, to whom even the winds and the sea obey?
-On the Church Eph 1:22 He put everything under His feet, and He gave Him as the supreme head of the Church,
-On the heavenly powers 1 Pet 3:22 who has been at the right hand of God, since he went to heaven, and the angels, the authorities and the powers, were submitted to him.
· Fruitful life of the righteous
Ps 1.3 It is like a tree planted near a stream of water, Which gives its fruit in its season, And whose foliage does not wither: Everything it does succeeds in it. Ps 92:15 They still bear fruit in old age, They are full of sap and verdant, Jer 17:8 He is like a tree planted near the waters, And which extends its roots towards the current; He does not see the heat when it comes, and his foliage remains green; In the year of drought, he has no fear, and he does not cease to bear fruit. Hos 14:9 Let him who is wise beware of these things! Let him who is intelligent understand them! For the ways of jehovah are righteous; The righteous will march there, but the rebels will fall there.
· Day of the Lord, called the last or great day
Jn 12:48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words has his judge; the word I have announced will judge him on the last day. Rom 2:5 But by your hardening and by your unrepentant heart, you amasse a treasure of wrath for the day of wrath and the manifestation of God’s just judgment, 2 Tim 1:12 And it is because of this that I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed of them, for I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he has the power to keep my deposit until that day. Hb 10:25 Let us not abandon our assembly, as is the custom of some; but let us exhort each other, especially as you see the day approaching. Jude 6 whom he reserved for the judgment of the great day, eternally chained by darkness, the angels who have not kept their dignity, but who have abandoned their own abode; Rev 6:17 for the great day of his wrath has come, and who can subsist?
From all the above, we note that Psalm 110 is of such simple application that, despite its great interest, it does not need a long comment: The poor man (Ps. 109:31) who, for his love, has found hatred (Ps 109:4), is the Lord of David; he is called to sit at the right hand of Jehovah. It is of the utmost interest to see how, in Isaiah 6, the Lord is the Lord of hosts, in the most absolute sense, and in our Psalm, the One who is the Son of David sits at the right hand of Jehovah and breaks kings on the day of his wrath (Ps. 2:9). All that is relative to the association of the Church with him above is omitted, and the Psalm passes directly from the fact of the session of Christ at the right hand of God, to the fact that he will send from Zion the rod of his strength: this shows how much in these Psalms everything is entirely Jewish. Notice moreover that this Psalm is the answer to Christ’s rejection on earth: it is not his coming from heaven to destroy the antichrist: he has already taken possession of Zion, and it is from there that the rod of his strength comes out. All this responds to the position of the residue, as presented to us throughout this book, which has shown us the restored Jews, but the dominion of Israel or Christ in Zion not yet established. But the people are now of frank will on the day of Christ’s power (Song of Songs 6:12). That he was different during his humiliation! Now the time for anger has come, the time for the execution of judgment. For in verse 6, the Head of a great country is the head of power on earth, but not the antichrist, or even the Beast, who are destroyed when Christ comes from heaven. The man who exalts himself is lowered. Christ, who, in humble dependence on his Father, is the purpose of the refreshing waters that were given to him on the way, according to God’s will, will have his head raised high on earth. We find in the Psalms that we have just gone through, the main elements of the whole scene. All this we learn from the divine commentaries we have of this psalm in other Scriptures, those of the New Testament. Our prayers are with you all.
PRAYER OF ACCEPTANCE OF JESUS CHRIST AS LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOR
I now invite every person who wants to become a new creation by walking in the truth, to pray with me the following prayer:
Lord Jesus, I have long walked in the lusts of the world ignoring your love for humans. I admit to having sinned against you and ask your forgiveness for all my sins, because today I have decided to give you my life by taking you as Lord and personal Savior. I recognize that you died on the cross of Calvary and rose from the dead for me.
I am now saved and born again by the power of the Holy Spirit. Lead me every day to the eternal life that you give to all who obey your Word. Reveal yourself to me and strengthen my heart and faith, so that your light may shine in my life right now.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for accepting me into your divine family, so that I may also contemplate the wonders of your kingdom.
I will now choose a nearby waterpoint to baptize myself by immersion, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
All adoration, power and glory are yours, now and forever and ever. Amen!
I would be happy to react to any questions and comments you may have, before sharing with you tomorrow “the faithful seek their strength in God, and ask for the deliverance of their people.”
May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you abundantly.
David Feze, Servant of the Almighty God.